Improvement in hames



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IMPROVEMENT IN EAMES.

The Schedule referred to in the-ae Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whoa, it may concern:

Be it known that I, W. H. BUSTIN, of Watertown, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful 'Improvement in Haines for Harnesses; and ldo hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being h ad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front view.

Figure 2 is a section of the part at the lines a a. i

It has for a long time been the study of interested persons to know how to avoid the use of the very clumsy and heavy hames used on harness, where great strain is necessary, and introduce into use instead thereof, alight, strong, durable, and epleasing form of hames. Another difficulty has been in the ordinary form of hames, that at the lower end below the draught-point, it has been so constructed,that the edge of the hames did not lit into the groove between the roll and cushion, or pad of the collar, so that when the strap was unloosedfrom the loops at the bottom end of the hames, they would if any strain were upon them, immediately turn oft of the collar on to the shoulder of the horse.

In my construction, the lower end of the hames is made to curve around and conform to the groove in the collar by said curvature, and by making the edge of the lower curved portion of the hames thin, so as to exactly it into the groove of the collar, the shape ofv the hames causing it to so fit into the groove, prevents the hames from violently slipping o the collar when the' fastener is released.

My invention, therefore, consists in so constructing a hames, that it will fully answer the above requisitions, by being light, strong, durable, and of the shape to be retained in the groove of the collar.

In the drawingsy, 4 Y A, fig. 2, represents the sheet-metal plate, which'yiu use lies next the collar, and b, the flange turned up,

tially as described.

at or nearly at right angles to plate A, and is a part of the same, by being bent or struck up into form from sheet-metal.

B is the wood .part of the hames, which is made to t on to plate A and its iiange b, as seen in cross-,section in fig. 2. Attached to plate A and ange b, is a shield, or protectingplate, c, having ears d, with holes for the pins, or bolts for fastening the traces, or tugs to.

This plate prevents the tug, or trace from wearing' the collar.

The metal plate and its ange lled with wood, is curved at its bottom and at f, tig. l, to t the curvature of the bottom of the collar, and the edge f is formed to closely fit into the groove of thev collar, by being brought into a nearly sharp edge, as seen at j, 2.

gIt is obvious thatl when sheet-metal is formed with its flange, so as to receive the wood, as above shown, the hames will be lighter than when made of v cast-iron or other cast-metal, and will be as strong, and have a much neater appearance.

The protecting-plate can be attached in any secure manner, by brazing or riveting.

I am aware thatcast-iron hames have been'used; I am also aware that cast-metal in part and wood combined, have been used in making hames; and am further aware that' the protective-plate is in use,.as of my invention, and for which a patent has been applied for. None of these features of themselves singly do I nowclaim, but having thus described my invention,

What I desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lhames above described,l consisting of plate A, with flange b, wood B, plate O, and ears ql, when constructed in the manner and for the purpose substan- W. H. BUsTIN.

Witnesses:

E. G. HARRINGTON,

WILLIAM S. MASON. 

